Articles by Elizabeth Mehren

Dog Man An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain Martha Sherrill Penguin Press: 240 pp., $25.95 AKA was a noble beast, a proud creature with the quiet command of the Sphinx. Read more

The title “Who Named the Knife” might at first suggest a history of a familiar, sharp-edged object. Read more

IN 1822, Harriet Tubman, nee Araminta Ross, was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation. Read more

The professor gazed at 18 students seated at long, glass-topped drawing tables, then projected a frame from the comic “Fritz the Cat” onto a pull-down screen. Read more

This is prime country-fair season, when villages roll out moon-sized pumpkins, maple-flavored everything and, here at Heritage Days, a manifesto on why Vermont should secede from the United States. Read more

A plea deal by the owners of the nightclub where 100 music fans died in a 2003 fire has roiled this small state, pitting the attorney general against the judge overseeing the case, and leaving friends and relatives of the victims stunned and angry. Read more

Windsor is the birthplace not just of a state but also a state of mind. Read more

In a key victory for the national Republican Party, incumbent Sen. Read more

The Senate race in this small state looks to be less an election than an ascension. Read more